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1. A Corned Beef for Today 

   I can do that

2. Letter

   ‘Protect Us From This Dangerous President,’ 2 Psychiatrists Say 

    I hope these two are mistaken. 

   The American people should find out.

   
   

   
   
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   Bridgewater’s Culture Is Like a ‘Nudist Camp’ at First: ‘Very Awkward’ 

   I hold no interest in Bridgewater, real or imagined. 

   
   

   
   
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   International Real Estate

   House Hunting in ... Costa Rica 

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Costa_Rica#Government_and_politics_of_Costa_Rica 

   
   

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Costa_Rica

   
   

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

   
   

   I don't want to live there.

   
   

   
   
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   On Washington

   Activists Urge Democrats to Step Up Resistance to Gorsuch Nomination 

   A Gorsuch appointment would not be the end of the world.

   It could be an end of representative democracy.

   The Republic is worthy of preservation.

   The Confederacy lost the Civil War. 

   
   

   
   
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   ‘A Day Without a Woman’ Protest: What to Expect 

   https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/us/a-day-without-a-woman.html 

   
   

   A good idea with poor execution.

   
   

   
   
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   52 Places to Go: (Underwater) Maldives 

   I must load a real operating system 

   
   

   
   
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   The Upshot

   Self-Driving Cars Can’t Cure Traffic, but Economics Can 

   Congestion pricing has not cured London. 

   
   

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing#London

   
   

   
   
9. 

   Op-Ed Contributor

   Don’t Roll Back the Vehicle Fuel Standards 

   "Weakening these standards would be a mistake for consumers, the environment and the auto industry itself. They are the most important action the United States has taken to address climate change and reduce the nation’s dependence on oil."

   
   

   "The king's horse may learn to sing hyms"

   
   

    
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    Arts

    How Alec Baldwin Gets Into Character as Donald Trump

    By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO | Mar 2nd 2017

    On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the actor described the president as someone who’s “always searching for a stronger, better word, and he never finds it.”
    
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    U.S.

    

    Video: Georgia Couple Headed to Prison For Racial Threats

    By SUSAN JOAN ARCHER | Mar 2nd 2017

    
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    Well

    

    The Weekly Health Quiz: Cancer, Alzheimer's and Vitamins Gone Gummy

    By TOBY BILANOW | Mar 3rd 2017

    Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/well/live/colon-and-rectal-cancers-rising-in-young-people.html
    
    https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/do-dairy-foods-cause-mucus-production/
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/well/live/acupuncture-can-ease-wrist-pain-of-carpal-tunnel-syndrome.html
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/well/move/frequent-brisk-walks-may-aid-those-with-early-alzheimers.html
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/well/eat/stress-can-make-the-pounds-accumulate.html
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/well/eat/vitamins-gone-gummy.html
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/well/family/doctors-no-longer-rush-to-cut-the-umbilical-cord.html
    
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    Opinion

    

    If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?

    By ROGER SCRUTON | Mar 6th 2017

    Understanding what bonds us together in the human condition is the job of philosophy, not science.
    
    The lack of spoken language does not negate a person.
    The definition of person is too narrow.
    
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    Science

    

    How the Amazon’s Cashews and Cacao Point to Cultivation by the Ancients

    By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR | Mar 3rd 2017

    A study that examined domesticated trees and plants, including in areas near archaeological sites, supports the idea that indigenous humans helped shape the forest.
    
    Indigenous people are just as smart as others.
    I find the thought of a gardened forest appealing.
    
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    Travel

    

    Late-Season Ski Discounts

    By ELAINE GLUSAC | Mar 7th 2017

    Resorts in the United States and Canada are offering lower prices for spring trips.
    
    Wet snow has few appeals.
    
    Mother always refereed to the last snow of the season as "poor man's fertilizer" or "a dirty joke".
    
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    Your Money

    

    Funeral Home Fees Vary Widely, and It’s Hard to Shop Around

    By ANN CARRNS | Mar 8th 2017

    Consumer watchdogs say that the biggest chain in the business, Service Corporation International, usually charges more than its rivals, but prices aren’t posted.
    
    Ask the old residents. 
    Putting money in the fire or in the ground would not be my choice.
    
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    N.Y. / Region

    

    Snakes, a Life of Crime and Eventually Two Murder Charges

    By ALAN FEUER | Mar 6th 2017

    After a troubled life of lawbreaking, Kwauhuru Govan was charged with killing two Brooklyn teenagers more than a decade ago.
    
    Kwauhuru Govan knows why and how to get a lawyer.